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Poking through it - it looks like it might include Perl, but no idea about what level of Perl-Unix-ism it might support. But I didn’t enjoy rereading ye old Perl implementation with Tolkien references [1] to give a feel for what the source file is about.

[1] https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/4d1a24875036fee128...

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The Perl interpreter is v5.6.1, though strictly speaking it's miniperl, not perl — there's no support for XS (i.e. native-compiled) modules.

Unlike MacPerl, it supports system(), exec(), and backticks in the Unixy way you'd expect. In fact, the program that packages up a MacRelix archive is a Perl script running in MacRelix.

I guess we'll just have to disagree about the Tolkien references. :-)

It does include Perl, though quite an old version: https://i.imgur.com/ySMhy3o.png (my screenshot)

This is the same version that was available as “MacPerl” back in The Day https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macperl-561

Doesn't look like there's an Awk included, which is a real shame.

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